“Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
During a dinner discussion with Kristen Bell and Jean Reno. Filmed for a week of shows in Paris, France.
2011-08-05 broadcast
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“It is never presence that gives us the feedback we need, but distance.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non è mai la presenza a darci il riscontro di cui abbiamo bisogno, ma la distanza.
Source: prevale.net
Claude Lévi-Strauss book Tristes Tropiques
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 9 : Guanabara, p. 86
Context: Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also — for better or for worse — takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is.
Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Statement of mid-1920'; as quoted in Abstract Art (1990) by Anna Moszynska, p. 100
1921 - 1930
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
